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A new version of Sukhoi SSJ-100 (SSJ-100 B100 - 100 places + encrease engines thrust) has got EASA certified:
https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/93557/

 

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Traktorniye Zavody Concern (BMP-1/2/3, BMD-1/2/4M and BTR-D/MDM producer) has presented new Arctic class tippers for MOD bases construction on Franz-Joseph Land islands:
https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/93670/

 

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Russian Scientists Create New Radio Sensor to Help Drones Fly Lower and Safer
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14:22 19.05.2017(updated 14:57 19.05.2017) Get short URL
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Russian scientists have developed a radio altimeter for drones that can safety guide the aircraft down to an altitude of just ten meters.

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Russia's Resurgent Drone Industry Ready for Takeoff
Scientists at Russia's Siberian Federal University have developed a radio altimeter that allows drones to operate at a height of just ten meters above the ground.


"This development will be able to significantly improve aerial surveys, which frequently require a lot of photographic mapping. This might be photography and video surveillance with a high level of detail, or geological exploration work," Peter Sharshavin, a lecturer at the university's Institute of Engineering, Physics and Radio Electronics and lead researcher on the project, said in a press release issued by the local administration of Krasnoyarsk Krai.

"The radio altimeter also has an 'autopilot' function for landing on unequipped runways. This will significantly improve the quality of exploration without increasing its cost," Sharshavin explained.

The radio altimeter developed at Siberian Federal University promises to be more accurate than most other height sensors.

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A radio altimeter, also known as a radar altimeter, is an airborne electronic device that measures the distance between the aircraft and the terrain directly below it. They are commonly used to land large commercial or military aircraft.


However, they are generally not used for small manned aircraft or drones, since they are not accurate enough to provide useful information during the landing of small aircraft flying at approach and landing speeds merely one third or one fourth those of large jet aircraft.

At present, drones are usually fitted with a barometric altimeter, which estimates altitude based on a measurement of atmospheric pressure, or satellite sensors such as GLONASS or GPS. However, the accuracy of satellite sensors can vary significantly, and barometric measurements can be affected by moving air masses that alter atmospheric pressure.

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Russian Researchers Develop New Blood and Biofluids Transportation Technology
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Russian researchers have developed a technology that makes transportation of blood and biofluid samples in medicine and veterinary science simpler and cheaper.
Materials specialists from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS) and their colleagues from the Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed a technology that makes it simpler, more reliable and cheaper to take biofluids samples, as well as to store and transport blood and biofluid samples in medicine and veterinary science.

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Russian Researchers Test Unique Implants for Bone Defect Replacement
Two approaches are currently used for transporting blood and biofluids in medicine and veterinary science: transportation of liquid samples and the manufacture of dried preparations with the subsequent restoration of solutions. Vacuum blood collection tubes used to transport liquid samples require special transportation and storage conditions, namely, containers where samples are stored at low, and often subzero, temperatures. As a rule, delivery timeframes are tight. Blood samples change their properties if preset temperatures or deadlines are violated during delivery and storage, leading to inaccurate results in medical tests.


Another method involves the use of dried samples for medical tests. For this purpose, several drops of blood are placed on special cellulose cards and dried. This method is difficult to use because Russia does not make such cellulose cards. Moreover, not every clinic has the expensive specialized equipment required to test dried preparations.

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The National University of Science and Technology MISIS
“Due to the complicated structure of cellulose, blood is distributed unevenly on the carrier and becomes sorbed by the material, and this seriously distorts results,” Assistant Professor Alexander Osipov, Ph. D. (Chemistry), a senior research associate with NUST MISIS’ faculty of functional nanosystems, noted.

Russian scientists solved the problem by replacing the cellulose from which biofluids sampling cards are made with a specially prepared porous inorganic material containing nano-particles of metals.

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Russian Researchers Contribute to the Creation of a New Family of Substances
The scientists have managed to come up with the right composition and form of absorbent, so that blood would be distributed evenly over the entire volume, and so that sorption levels would be minimized. In addition, blood components that are being tested would completely mix with the solution, while being washed off from the biofluids sampling card.


Modified samples dry about two times faster on the new material, and this considerably expedites the process of preparing samples. The new material’s advantage lies in the fact that there is no need to use special containers for transportation; an ordinary paper envelope would suffice. The delivery process is considerably simpler and cheaper, as compared to the use of containers and special-purpose vehicles.

NUST MISIS sources note that each hand-made card costs almost five times less than imported cellulose equivalents. In fact, one such card costs 40 rubles, rather than 180 rubles, even when produced in limited quantities. Their price will go down after large-scale production is launched.

The technology’s creators have patented it and have so far decided to focus on veterinary diagnostics. Experts working in this area have to conduct hundreds of thousands of tests all the time. As a rule, livestock farms, especially those in remote areas, lack the required conditions for doing this. Developers hope to mass-produce biofluids sampling cards by late 2017, after completing tests and certification procedures.

 

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Russian Ultrafast 3D-Printer to Produce Items in Space (VIDEO)
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18:52 18.05.2017(updated 21:50 18.05.2017) Get short URL
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Russian scientists have developed a 3D-printer that will be able to work in zero gravity to produce tools and various spare parts while in space. Astronauts will be able to travel light into orbit – and can print out anything they need while they are there!

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There are countless electrical connectors on the International Space Station, and when nothing is connected to them, they must be closed with special caps. In zero gravity, these small plastic caps often just fly away and get lost behind the ISS panels or in the ventilation system.


Aleksandr Kaleri, a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station, came up with the bright idea of printing the parts on board the station rather than ferrying them up from the Earth.



The novel ultrafast 3D-printer for space technologies is created by scientists from the Tomsk Polytechnic University and the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Currently, the printer uses polymers for printing, but in the future, it will also use other materials, including metal-clad ones. Alongside spare parts, the machine will also print tools. It is designed to produce items weighing up to 1 ton and generally work three-four times as fast as a typical 3D-printer.


The new 3D-printer was presented in Tomsk at Russian scientists' forum, U-NOVUS. It is expected that the experimental device will be delivered to the ISS in 2018.

 

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Russian medics conduct surgery to separate fingers of ‘butterfly’ patient
Science & Space
May 18, 18:53UTC+3
Patients with Epidermolysis bullosa are often called ‘butterfly people’ as their skin is said to be as fragile as a butterfly’s wings
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MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Medics of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have performed a unique surgery to separate fingers of a ‘butterfly’ patient, the ministry’s press service told TASS on Thursday.

"The unique surgery was conducted at the All-Russia Center of Emergency and Radiation Medicine," the press service said.



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Such surgery was performed in Russia for the first time on a patient suffering from Epidermolysis bullosa, a group of inherited connective tissue diseases that cause blisters in the skin and mucosal membrane.

Patients with Epidermolysis bullosa are often called ‘butterfly people’ as their skin is said to be as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. The disease often causes fingers and toes to fuse together.


"The surgery helps to restore the functioning and appearance of fingers," the press service said.

The St.Petersburg-based Center of Emergency and Radiation Medicine is the only hospital in Russia that offers all the necessary treatment to adult patients with Epidermolysis bullosa.



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http://tass.com/science/946569

 

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Russian scientists come up with superior hydrogen storage material
Science & Space
May 18, 15:47UTC+3
Hydrogen is one of the best alternatives to gasoline, gas, and other fossil fuels
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MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Krasnoyarsk researchers have come up with new material for hydrogen storage, the press office of Siberian Federal University (SFU) said. The material based on the magnesium hydride is capable of storing hydrogen in an amount of about 7% of its own weight and this is namely the record-breaking value of capacity for all similar materials. This breakthrough might be useful for creating hydrogen-powered automobiles.



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Hydrogen is one of the best alternatives to gasoline, gas, and other fossil fuels. Nowadays, the most promising use for hydrogen is in fuel cell vehicles. However, the transportation of hydrogen carries with it many difficulties. First, it requires expensive and heavy tanks. Second, the whole procedure can be dangerous as the mixture of air and hydrogen is extremely flammable. Consequently, it was suggested to store hydrogen while transporting it in various storage mediums.

"Now, the most secure and effective solution is to apply hydride-forming metals capable of absorbing hydrogen. Out of all metals, magnesium is believed to be the most encouraging alternative. In the modern world, many scientists are involved in studying the possible creation of hydrogen accumulators based on magnesium hydride," said Grigory Churilov the study’s coauthor, SFU professor and research assistant at the Kirensky Institute of Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.



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According to theoretical estimations, magnesium can absorb hydrogen in amounts of up to 7.6% of its own mass. However, in most modern experiments, the capacity of magnesium hydride does not exceed 5-6 weight percents.


Krasnoyarsk researchers managed to boost this value by adding nickel and platinum to the magnesium hydride, they obtained a new material with advanced accumulation capability.

The scientists’ article has been published in the last volume of the SFU’s journal "Mathematics and Physics".



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http://tass.com/science/946492

 

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Siberian expert points to microneighborhoods as the future of urban planning
Science & Space
May 16, 16:28UTC+3
An expert believes that "work-household-rest" model that took hold in the middle of the 20th century is becoming a thing of the past
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MOSCOW, May 16. /TASS/. A researcher from the Siberian Federal University (SFU) has conducted a study of urban areas in Russia, the US, and Europe and drew the conclusion that microneighborhoods will become the basic component in the future of urban planning, the university’s press office said.

The work entitled "Living urban units: the new development thrusts" and published in AIP Conference Proceedings, contains the results of a study on global changes which influenced the formation of urban planning during the last century.



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"The microneighborhood remains the key unit of urban planning for the modern metropolis. In recent times, city block development appeared on the scene, but the microneighborhood is more self-sustainable and comfortable for citizens, which was confirmed in my study," said Irina Fedchenko, the study’s author, research assistant and senior lecturer at the Urban Development Faculty of the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Siberian Federal University. According to her, the microneighborhood allows for flexible building. One could combine various types of buildings ranging in height including single-family houses, create safe traffic, build libraries, community centers, hospitals and other medical centers, children’s educational institutions and pre-school facilities.

Fedchenko presumes the "work-household-rest" model that took hold in the middle of the 20th century is becoming a thing of the past in almost every microneighborhood. It is being replaced by planning which takes into account the new way of life in modern cities. The multistructurality of the economy, new technologies, the evolution of new employment statuses including freelance or irregular working hours dictate the new terms of work for architects and planners. They have to consider the ecological compatibility of a building to preserve all species of the surrounding wildlife and microclimate, as well as the inclusion of art objects and ‘clever’ technologies in lighting, security control, heating and other utilities in the urban landscape.


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Another popular trend to mention is the formation of ‘environmentally-social’ thinking when a design’s foundation is put together by social process, while a human being is seen through a prism of "co-involvement and management".

For instance, the first stage of preparation for neighborhood city-planning projects is troubleshooting the area with local residents. There are seminars organized where people are taught to understand and pose issues for community development, followed by pilot studies of strengths and weaknesses, capabilities and restrictions of the development plans. Then, so-called "community centers" are established.



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According to the scientist, the experience with microneighborhoods in the former GDR demonstrates that old Socialist-era buildings should not necessarily be demolished. "In contrast to the capital of Russia, where decisions were made to tear down Khrushchev-era apartments, German architects transform similar types of dwellings into new living areas. For example, they leave only the house’s skeletal framework untouched, but the rest is reconstructed.

That way, multi-entrance dwellings are changed into villas with the only one grand entrance. The ground floor can be turned into a landscape or front yard garden, while mansard rooftops, or attics can be added to the top of the building.

She believes that Siberia, in turn, might also offer an opportunity for foreign countries to learn from. One of the main advantages of the Siberian microneighborhoods is the walking distance to hospitals and facilities for retirees, children, teenagers, and adults. At the dawn of 21st century, the new microneighborhoods should be constructed based on the following basic principles: physical, social, and economic availability, mobility, respect for diversity and multi-functionality of areas, the interaction between the population’s professional and social groups, landscape-ecologically-based philosophy, and an open policy on city planning.



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http://tass.com/science/946108

 

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Russian defense company awaits final go-ahead to test unmanned armored vehicles
Military & Defense
May 18, 13:52UTC+3
The vehicle can now move with no one inside and fire from a 30-mm cannon
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MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Russia’s Military Industrial Company is awaiting the final stamp of approval from the Russian Defense Ministry to conduct munitions tests for the unmanned Tigr (Tiger) armored vehicle equipped with a 30-mm autocannon, the company’s CEO, Alexander Krasovitsky, told TASS.



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"We received the approval from the Defense Ministry’s top brass for this assignment and we are going forward with it. At present, we are developing and coordinating with the Defense Ministry a munitions test program for this vehicle," Krasovistky said.

As he put it, once the program is approved, the company will seal contracts on munitions tests with organizations that will provide the means for these trials.

"Munitions testing is a complicated process that requires considering a wealth of details essential for an objective result. So, there is no actual timeline, but we want to complete it as soon as possible," the CEO elaborated.


Earlier he mentioned in an interview with TASS that Military Industrial Company developed an unmanned version of the Tiger armored vehicle. The vehicle can now move with no one inside and fire from a 30-mm cannon. According to Krasovitsky, it was developed in cooperation with Engineering and Manufacturing Agency (766 UPTK) with the permission of the Russian Defense Ministry, using its own resources.

The combat module installed on the Tiger was equipped with a 30-mm autocannon from the Uran-9 unmanned combat ground vehicle.



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http://tass.com/defense/946454

 

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Siberian robot to fix roads

17 May '17
Students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a robot that will be able to fill up holes in the roadbed, TPU announced.

To identify and address a problem, the robot will be expected to “see” with a machine vision system which will help it recognize the key elements on any road, whether it’s road marking, traffic lights, or signs. The prototype that is being currently developed can pinpoint roadbed holes by “seeing” a difference in color. The robot can fill up holes with a special emulsion, using jet injection technology.

“When right next to a hole, the robot must scan it for dimensions and depth, and then release an emulsion. It will help bring maximum automation to road repairs. We expect to make the robot capable of asking an operator for authorization to start fixing a hole. It’s a completely new working condition for humans; an operator won’t have to be right on the spot and he could run several such robots simultaneously,” said Vsevolod Rachis, a second-year cybernetics student and the project leader at TPU.

His team is currently working on two prototypes. One is helping fine-tune machine vision, and the other is responsible for mechanics and movement experiments.

“The prototypes have their movement system ready; they already can receive information from sensors; and I’m working on the code to enable basic recognition elements,” the student said.

The effort has recently received two-year grant backing from Russia’s Bortnik Fund, a 23-year-old government-owned fund to support pre-seed lab-stage tech developments. The students expect to use the grant to first develop a small prototype capable of showing all stages of work in detail. An operational prototype to follow will be much bigger, the size of a truck, as it will have to carry containers with an emulsion and road metal to last for a whole working day.

 

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Protons against cancer: new Russian discovery

18 May '17
Russian scientists have successfully completed a series of experiments aimed at fighting cancer with proton beams, portal Hi-news.ru reported.

A team led by Svetlana Zaichkina of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics in Pushchino outside Moscow reportedly experimented with mice that had various cancers. The animals were exposed to proton radiation with a varying number of sessions, duration per session, and beam power. The experiments resulted in tangible improvements in the mice’s health, with their tumor growth slowing down by a quite noticeable five to six times. Targeted proton therapy aimed only at the tumors proved the best: more that 80% of the mice treated like that are reported to have had their primary cancers conquered.

That said, however, the experimenters reportedly failed to avoid setbacks. About 60% of what they had thought to be successful mice cases eventually developed new tumors. Nonetheless, the mice that had received targeted proton treatment lived three months longer than their congeners, while the animals that suffered no relapse lived as long as two years, the typical average life expectancy for healthy mice.

That led the experimenters to the conclusion that proton therapy is more effective and safer that conventional radiotherapy, especially if used targetedly on tumors exclusively. With the kind of efficacy, treatment could be limited to just a few proton radiation sessions, if not only one. That would help lower the cost of therapy and save the lives of patients with brain tumors and other cancers currently deemed inoperable.

 

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Russian Researchers Develop New Blood and Biofluids Transportation Technology
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14:15 19.05.2017Get short URL
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Russian researchers have developed a technology that makes transportation of blood and biofluid samples in medicine and veterinary science simpler and cheaper.
Materials specialists from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS) and their colleagues from the Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed a technology that makes it simpler, more reliable and cheaper to take biofluids samples, as well as to store and transport blood and biofluid samples in medicine and veterinary science.

© PHOTO: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MISIS)
Russian Researchers Test Unique Implants for Bone Defect Replacement
Two approaches are currently used for transporting blood and biofluids in medicine and veterinary science: transportation of liquid samples and the manufacture of dried preparations with the subsequent restoration of solutions. Vacuum blood collection tubes used to transport liquid samples require special transportation and storage conditions, namely, containers where samples are stored at low, and often subzero, temperatures. As a rule, delivery timeframes are tight. Blood samples change their properties if preset temperatures or deadlines are violated during delivery and storage, leading to inaccurate results in medical tests.


Another method involves the use of dried samples for medical tests. For this purpose, several drops of blood are placed on special cellulose cards and dried. This method is difficult to use because Russia does not make such cellulose cards. Moreover, not every clinic has the expensive specialized equipment required to test dried preparations.

© PHOTO: COURTESY OF PRESS-SERVICE OF NUST MISIS
The National University of Science and Technology MISIS
“Due to the complicated structure of cellulose, blood is distributed unevenly on the carrier and becomes sorbed by the material, and this seriously distorts results,” Assistant Professor Alexander Osipov, Ph. D. (Chemistry), a senior research associate with NUST MISIS’ faculty of functional nanosystems, noted.

Russian scientists solved the problem by replacing the cellulose from which biofluids sampling cards are made with a specially prepared porous inorganic material containing nano-particles of metals.

© FOTOLIA/ CAPIFRUTTA
Russian Researchers Contribute to the Creation of a New Family of Substances
The scientists have managed to come up with the right composition and form of absorbent, so that blood would be distributed evenly over the entire volume, and so that sorption levels would be minimized. In addition, blood components that are being tested would completely mix with the solution, while being washed off from the biofluids sampling card.


Modified samples dry about two times faster on the new material, and this considerably expedites the process of preparing samples. The new material’s advantage lies in the fact that there is no need to use special containers for transportation; an ordinary paper envelope would suffice. The delivery process is considerably simpler and cheaper, as compared to the use of containers and special-purpose vehicles.

NUST MISIS sources note that each hand-made card costs almost five times less than imported cellulose equivalents. In fact, one such card costs 40 rubles, rather than 180 rubles, even when produced in limited quantities. Their price will go down after large-scale production is launched.

The technology’s creators have patented it and have so far decided to focus on veterinary diagnostics. Experts working in this area have to conduct hundreds of thousands of tests all the time. As a rule, livestock farms, especially those in remote areas, lack the required conditions for doing this. Developers hope to mass-produce biofluids sampling cards by late 2017, after completing tests and certification procedures.

 

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Russian Researchers Contribute to the Creation of a New Family of Substances
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16:33 22.03.2017(updated 16:34 22.03.2017) Get short URL
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An international team of researchers, including fellows from several Russian research institutions, synthesized 2D copper oxide, which could be used in microelectronics to improve “magnetic memory.” The results of their research were published by the scientific journal NanoScale.

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NUST MISIS Experts Develop Unique Laser Pulse Controlling System
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The creation of one-atom-thick 2D materials is a promising area in materials science today. Since the discovery of graphene in 2004 as the first 2D material, researchers across the world have been hard at work studying its properties, and trying to combine it with other materials.


Researchers from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS (NUST MISIS), the Technological Institute of Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (Moscow) and the Institute of Biochemical Physics (Moscow), together with colleagues from the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan), were able to synthesize 2D copper oxide using graphene.

Unlike graphene with its hexagonal unit cells consisting of carbon atoms, 2D copper oxide has a square lattice, which makes it the first 2D material of this kind. The new material stands out by its antiferromagnetic ground state (low magnetism), whereas bulk Cu and CuO are paramagnetic.




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Antiferromagnetics have great potential in microelectronics. For instance, in order to write one bit of data on an antiferromagnetic material, only 12 atoms of its surface are needed, whereas current technology uses hundreds of thousands of atoms to write the same amount of data.


Researchers believe that there could be other applications for their work. “Our discovery proved that graphene can be used as a basic element for producing various materials, including not only standalone materials, but also multi-layer 2D heterostructures,” Pavel Sorokin, senior research fellow at the NUST MISIS Inorganic Nanomaterials Laboratory, was quoted as saying in the university’s press release.